Hook and eye



(No Model.)

H. S. WEDMORE. HOOK AND EYE.

No. 489,053. Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

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HENRY S. \VEDMORE, OF GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,053, dated January 3, 1893. Application filed April 13, 1892. Serial No. 429,065. (No model.)

and useful Improvement in Hooks and Eyes,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement inhooks and eyes in which provision is made for engaging the hook with the eye without twisting either of the parts out of their normal plane and without requiring the edges to be fastened to be drawn together but a slight distance farther than the position in which they are locked.

It is of material importance, in order to meet the demands of the consumer, that a hook and. eye for general use should be so constructed that they will not unintentionally unhook, that they present a neat appearance and cocupy as little space as possible in a direction transverse to the plane of the material to be connected by them and that they be capable of being manipulated with facility. It is to the accomplishment of these ends that my present invention is directed.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

in which Figure 1 represents a view of the hook and eye disengaged and in the position which they assu niewhen they are about to be interlocked, Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts partially engaged, Fig. 3 isa similar view showing the parts engaged, Fig. t is aview of the parts in edge elevation and Fig. 5 represents a modified form.

The eye is represented as a whole by A and the book by Ii. The shank of the eye is provided with a laterally elongated loop a for the reception of the laterally broadened bill I) of the hook and a contracted neck a connects the laterally elongated loop a. with the head.

a of the eye proper. It is intended that the shank b of the hook shall fit snugly between the walls of the contracted portion a? of the eye, so thatit will require a slight pressure to force it therethrough.

I find it desirable to construct the eye and the book of wire, but they might be stamped or cut out of metal if desired.

The bill 11 of the hook is extended laterally or broadened until its breadth is greater than the diameter of the head a of the eye so that it cannot escape from said eye after it is once placed therein until it'be backed through the contracted neck of into the laterally elongated opening a.

In forming the eye, the wire may be first turned to form the head a and after the parts are brought together to form the contracted neck portion a, they may be extended away from each other and again brought around toward each other to form the laterally elongated loop a and subsequently turned to form eyes a for the adjustment of the eye to the garment.

Informing the hook, the wire may be first turned to form the bill I) and then the parts may be brought snugly together and continued side by side to form the-shank l) and finally turned to form the eyes I) for the adjustment of the hook to the garment.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, I have represented the shank of the book as provided with a laterally elongatedloop c and have provided the eye with an enlarged head 0 and contracted shank. c, the latter adapted to fit snugly between the spread branches 0 of the hook while the head 0 of the eye is sufiiciently broad to prevent it from passing between the spread branches of the hook when the parts are held in their normal. plane.

In both of the forms which I have shown, the parts may be interlocked, without twistingeither one of them out of their-normal.

plane, by simply passing thebroadened head of the one through the laterally elongated loop in the shank of the other and then allowing the parts to slip into locked adjustment with the head of the eye und er the bill of the hook. The laterally elongated loop may be tlocated nearer to or farther away from the free end of the part in which it is formed, as may be desired.

What I claim is: I

A hook, provided with a bill'lextending over and spaced from its shank, and-an eye, the shanks of the hook and the eye being arranged to extend substantially-in the same or parallel planes, the one having an eye in its head, a laterally elongated loop in its shank tractednpassageway to its seat in the head and a contracted passage-way leading from without beingtwisted or turned laterally, sub- 10 the elongated loop to the eye, and the other stantially as set forth.

having a contracted shank and an enlarged heachthe relation of the said contracted HENRY S. WEDMORE. shank of the latter and the contracted pas- Witnesses: sage-way of the former beln'g such that the FRANK P. KNowLEs,

contracted shank may pass through the con- FRANK D. BAYLIES. 

